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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Galloglaich" data-source="post: 4756558" data-attributes="member: 77019">Being a bit of a brawler in Ye Olde Punk Rocke days (TM) my friends and I always included realistic combat in our games, though not quite to the extent Jack describes of acting out fights, we still liked to use dice. (Though I do remember one time playing a post- apocalypse game when everybody brought the weapons their player could be expected to have in-game, we had quite an arsenal there... which wasn't a bad thing since the neighborhood of the apt. where we played our weekly game was half a block from the St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans) Once I learned about Historical European Martial Arts in the 90's the combat in pretty much every RPG (with the exception of TROS while it was around) seemed too ridiculous to bear. HEMA confrimed and expanded upon my understanding of street fighting and influenced me so much that I finally wrote a book with an entirely new combat system for DnD to give me the 'grammar' I wanted to have with which to create the poetry of combat in our games. I'm a fan of MMA and other martial arts as well, pretty much all of my friends have at least dabbled in Martial Arts of some kind, either Eastern or Western. G.</blockquote>